An illuminating paper by @sbagen.bsky.social
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Jens Ludwig — Unforgiving Places: The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence YouTube video by Watson School of International and Public Affairs

Video of Jens Ludwig's talk @taubmancenter.bsky.social @watsonschoolbrown.bsky.social on his important book Unforgiving Places: The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence
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The Alexander Meiklejohn Lecture: “Post-Legality: What Follows a Collapse in the Rule of Law?” YouTube video by Watson School of International and Public Affairs

Video of University of Chicago Law Professor Aziz Huq's lecture on “Post-Legality: What Follows a Collapse in the Rule of Law?” @taubmancenter.bsky.social @watsonschoolbrown.bsky.social
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Jens Ludwig — Unforgiving Places: The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence What if everything we understood about gun violence was wrong? In 2007, economist Jens Ludwig moved to the South Side of Chicago to research t...

Today at 4:00pm @watsonschoolbrown.bsky.social
Jens Ludwig speaking about his important book, Unforgiving Places: The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence.

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Monday at 4:00pm @watsonschoolbrown.bsky.social. Join us!
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Jens Ludwig — Unforgiving Places: The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence What if everything we understood about gun violence was wrong? In 2007, economist Jens Ludwig moved to the South Side of Chicago to research t...

If you are in Providence on April 13, please join us at 4:00pm for a talk by Jens Ludwig on his important new book Unforgiving Places: The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence. Registration required. @watsonschoolbrown.bsky.social

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The Alexander Meiklejohn Lecture: “Post-Legality: What Follows a Collapse in the Rule of Law?” This year, University of Chicago Law Professor Aziz Huq delivers “Post-Legality: What Follows a Collapse in the Rule of Law?” In his lecture, H...

Looking forward to Aziz Huq's April 8 lecture on how constitutional orders respond to a collapse in the rule of law. @watsonschoolbrown.bsky.social @democracyprof.bsky.social

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Congrats to my son Michael on the launch of the new board game he created & designed: Kernel Panic: A cooperative puzzling game of chaotically concurrent computation! 1/3
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Jens Ludwig — Unforgiving Places: The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence What if everything we understood about gun violence was wrong? In 2007, economist Jens Ludwig moved to the South Side of Chicago to research t...

If you are in Providence on April 13, please join us at 4:00pm for a talk by Jens Ludwig on his important new book Unforgiving Places: The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence. Registration required. @watsonschoolbrown.bsky.social

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Paying Our Great Transportation Security Administration Officers and Employees MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY THE DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET SUBJECT:       Paying

1/2 This memo identifies absolutely no source of legal authority for paying TSA. It does not point to an appropriation that is available for this purpose, nor does it point to any legal authority to transfer some other appropriation to TSA. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

new acronym needed - Trump Strategies Usually Backfire.. T-SUB. Pushes UK closer to EU (and makes EU more open to trad deals around the world). Pushes countries into the arms of China.. Makes oil and gas incredibly risky and unpredictable so accelerates moves to decarbonise..

Exciting news - we are seeking proposal submissions (due May 15) for a special issue of @jhppl.bsky.social on "Community Organizing, Power, and Politics", that I am editing alongside @povertyscholar.bsky.social and Megan Reynolds. Please see the full CFP below! Invited papers will be due Sept 1.

Dylan, Idiot Wind.

My unfashionable take is that it is possible for civil service systems to learn, and most of the things we could do to improve that capacity are being undermined right now. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Special issue: American Government and the Politics of Problem Solving; Guest Editors: Alan S. Gerber and Eric M. Patashnik Volume 23, issue 3-4 of the journal The Forum was published in 2025.

All-star contributors include @donmoyn.bsky.social Anzia, Teles, Carpenter, Canes-Wrone, Curry & Lee, Rothenberg, @alongcamejones.bsky.social 2/2
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Introduction: American Government and the Politics of Problem Solving This special issue brings together essays by leading political scientists to provide insights on the politics of problem solving in the contemporary American state. This brief introduction summarizes ...

The special issue of @theforum-degruyter.bsky.social on "American Government and the Politics of Problem Solving" that I coedited with Alan Gerber has been published. Intro (Open Access) here: @watsonschoolbrown.bsky.social @ispsyale.bsky.social 1/2
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SCOTUS, tariffs, IEEPA, and the legislative veto: we're all trying to find the guy who did this I'm going to write this up thoroughly on Friday on my Substack, here I'm just working out the outline of the argument. The only real question in the tariff ...

really liked this @mattglassman312.bsky.social on the tariff case and the legislative veto (also shoutout to @joshchafetz.bsky.social) blog.mattglassman.net/the-court-th...

See snow totals, power outages as RI hits 'peak blizzard': Live updates Rhode Island is experiencing widespread power outages as the storm hits its zenith, with 'total paralysis' on the roads.

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"At 1 p.m., the storm had dumped 32.8 inches on Rhode Island T.F. Green International Airport, according to the National Weather Service, obliterating the prior-record 28.6-inches that fell there during the Blizzard of 1978."

Understanding the U.S. judicial system & Supreme Court decision-making has never been more important. A big thank you to @stevevladeck.bsky.social for sharing his insights yesterday with @brown.edu students at the @taubmancenter.bsky.social's Politics & Policy lunch. @watsonschoolbrown.bsky.social

Homeland Security is targeting Americans with this secretive legal weapon Under Trump, the Department of Homeland Security has weaponized administrative subpoenas to attack free speech, according to privacy and civil rights groups.

Extraordinary US government surveillance of ordinary people is beginning
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Trump's Schedule F Rule Finalized A bizarro rule formally justifies politicizing public services

New, from me: Trump finalized his Schedule F policy, allowing him to remove job protections from career civil servants.

The new rule is dishonest and unmoored from reality in its effort to formalize the politicization of the federal government 🧵
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Countermobilization: Policy Feedback and Backlash in a Polarized Age (Chicago Studies in American Politics) Amazon.com: Countermobilization: Policy Feedback and Backlash in a Polarized Age (Chicago Studies in American Politics): 9780226829890: Patashnik, Eric M.: Books

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Democrats Refuse to Fund ICE After Shooting, Imperiling Spending Deal

Policy backlashes gain strength when they join elite leadership with grassroots protest. We have seen less of this combination in Trump 2.0 than under Trump 1.0 but it is starting to happen more.
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Countermobilization: Policy Feedback and Backlash in a Polarized Age (Chicago Studies in American Politics) Amazon.com: Countermobilization: Policy Feedback and Backlash in a Polarized Age (Chicago Studies in American Politics): 9780226829890: Patashnik, Eric M.: Books

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Videos From Minnesota Show How Aggressive ICE Has Gotten During Arrests and Encounters With Protesters For weeks, residents have documented the impact of President Trump’s mass deportation campaign and captured many violent confrontations on camera.

Most policy backlash has come from reactionary groups since the 1960s. However, as I argued in my book, as "threats to the policy status quo increasingly emanate from the right, the incentives for liberal countermobilzation will likely strengthen." 1/2
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Postdoctoral Research Associate in American Politics & Public Opinion - Providence, Rhode Island job with Brown University | 37938823 This postdoctoral position offers early-career scholars the opportunity to pursue research focusing on American politics and public opinion

Brown University's Taubman Center is searching for a postdoc in American politics and public opinion. @watsonschoolbrown.bsky.social @taubmancenter.bsky.social

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.@watsonschoolbrown.bsky.social @taubmancenter.bsky.social is searching for a postdoc in American politics and public opinion. Please circulate.
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